<h1>COCO 2016 Keypoint Detection Task</h1>
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<h1>1. Overview</h1>
<p>The COCO Keypoint Detection Task requires localization of person keypoints in challenging, uncontrolled conditions. The keypoint task involves simultaneously detecting people <i>and</i> localizing their keypoints (person locations are <i>not</i> given at test time). For full details of this task please see the <a href="#keypoints-eval">keypoint evaluation</a> page.</p>
<p>This task is part of the <a href="http://image-net.org/challenges/ilsvrc+coco2016">ImageNet and COCO Visual Recognition</a> workshop at ECCV 2016. For further details about the joint workshop please visit the workshop page. Please also see the related COCO <a href="#detection-2016">detection</a> task.</p>
<p>The COCO train, validation, and test sets, containing more than 200,000 images and 250,000 person instances labeled with keypoints (the majority of people in COCO at medium and large scales) are available for <a href="#download">download</a>. Annotations on train and val (with over 150,000 people and 1.7 million labeled keypoints) are publicly available.</p>

<h1>2. Dates</h1>
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  <div class="jsonktxt">June 1, 2016</div><div class="jsonvtxt">Challenge officially announced</div>
  <div class="jsonktxt">September 9, 2016</div><div class="jsonvtxt">Evaluation server opens</div>
  <div class="jsonktxt">September 16, 2016</div><div class="jsonvtxt">[Extended] Submission deadline (11:59 PST)</div>
  <div class="jsonktxt">October 2, 2016</div><div class="jsonvtxt">Challenge results released</div>
  <div class="jsonktxt">October 9, 2016</div><div class="jsonvtxt">Winners present at ECCV 2016 Workshop</div>
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<h1>3. Organizers</h1>
<div>Tsung-Yi Lin (Cornell Tech)</div>
<div>Yin Cui (Cornell Tech)</div>
<div>Genevieve Patterson (Brown)</div>
<div>Matteo Ruggero Ronchi (Caltech)</div>
<div>Lubomir Bourdev (UC Berkeley)</div>
<div>Ross Girshick (Facebook AI Research)</div>
<div>Piotr Dollár (Facebook AI Research)</div>

<h1>4. Award Committee</h1>
<div>Yin Cui (Cornell Tech)</div>
<div>Genevieve Patterson (Brown)</div>
<div>Matteo Ruggero Ronchi (Caltech)</div>
<div>Serge Belongie (Cornell Tech)</div>
<div>Lubomir Bourdev (UC Berkeley)</div>
<div>Michael Maire (TTI-Chicago)</div>
<div>Pietro Perona (Caltech)</div>
<div>Deva Ramanan (CMU)</div>
